Part of public health policy is determining the best use of funds – to save or protect the most lives with the fewest resources. With all the demands on health care from heart disease, diabetes, AIDS, and other types of cancer, the economics for Gardasil don’t add up.
EPA Unlikely to Limit Rocket Fuel in Your Tap Water
October 1, 2008 – 11:38 pm
Some folks refer to their morning coffee as “Rocket Fuel.” If they are making their coffee with tap water, they may be speaking literally, not figuratively. They just don’t know it.
The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to rule that it will not set a drinking-water safety standard for perchlorate. This component of rocket fuel has [...]
Merck Wins Expanded Uses for Gardasil®
September 16, 2008 – 12:09 pm
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FDA Approves Expanded Uses for Gardasil® to Include Preventing Certain Vulvar and Vaginal Cancers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the approval of the vaccine Gardasil for the prevention of vaginal and [...]
Hurt feelings ‘worse than physical pain’
September 1, 2008 – 7:01 am
The old adage “sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you”, simply is not true, according to researchers.
Psychologists found memories of painful emotional experiences linger far longer than those involving physical pain.
They quizzed volunteers about painful events over the previous five years.
Writing in the journal Psychological Science, they said evolutionary [...]
Researchers Question Wide Use of HPV Vaccines
August 21, 2008 – 1:04 pm
FINALLY!
In June of 2006, my writing partner, Leslie Botha, and I, started writing articles cautioning women against the use of Gardasil® for girls and young women. We cited the limited nature of the clinical trials (the number, and ages of women tested) and the length of time from the clinical trials and the FDA [...]
GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues
August 11, 2008 – 1:44 am
Girls and Young Women Pay the Price for
Corporate Greed and the FDA’s Failure to Protect
Reported by Barbara Loe Fisher
The vaccine reaction reports keep coming into the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) from mothers describing how they took their healthy teenage girls into a pediatrician or gynecologist’s office where they were given a GARDASIL shot and, [...]
Cash Bombs Fall on Canadian Officials as Merck Marketing Blitzkrieg Moves North
June 23, 2008 – 1:22 pm
Is the HPV vaccine a victory for women’s health or the triumph of aggressive marketing?
Canadian reporters struggle to shed light on a muddled debate that’s as much about business as it is about health.
When federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced $300 million in funding for a program to vaccinate girls and young women against the [...]
FDA Admits Dental Mercury Poses Health Risk To Pregnant Women And Children
June 5, 2008 – 8:14 am
Following the settlement of a lawsuit earlier this week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its consumer advice on mercury amalgam to say that it poses health risks to pregnant women, children, and the unborn.
The updated consumer advice, which is in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) section of [...]
FDA to Merck — Correct Vaccine Plant Faults
June 3, 2008 – 10:37 am
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered Merck & Co. to correct numerous manufacturing deficiencies at its main vaccine plant, the latest in a string of setbacks for the drug maker.
The FDA released a warning letter sent to Merck’s chief executive, Richard T. Clark, that states FDA inspectors determined manufacturing rules are not being followed [...]